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What do people think about this?
Everyday I commute on the train and commuters who obviously pay a fair wack for season tickets have to stand to and from work. I pay £300/month!
I'm lucky in that I get on early and leave work early enough to get on the train as it arrives.
There isn't enough seats to equal demand so would you be happy to pay a lower price if you stood rather than sat? Or should people who have to stand be compensated? Seems unfair they pay the same price as a seated traveller but get a worse service by having to stand.....

Incidentally the train I'm on at the moment is over capacity by a whole carriage worth at least!

maximum capacity they have to adhere to for healthy & safety reasons??
I know buses sometimes have a maximum capacity for seating + standing although never seen it enforced.
Suppose worst-case scenario of a serious train crash with carriages full of standing commuters may change things but other than that things will just get progressively busier with no change.
Lots of small stations platforns can't handle longer carriage trains so I think this also limits getting extra seats in some instances

I used to get left standing at the station with 'no room' on the last direct bus as it was filled with OAPs using their bus passes for a day trip. Which is a bitch when you've bought a return ticket already and then have to either shell out for a train or take three buses rather than the one.

I'd advocate an essential/non-essential travel at Peak Times rule. Anyone on a day trip/bus pass/with kids travelling in the rush hour can do one.

but petrol/congestion charge/parking in Kensington make it in no way a viable option to drive to work. Plus as my entire social life is based in London and I live in Woking I'd end up never drinking/sleeping on the back seat of my car all the time.

This thing about having no choice. It's not really the train companies' fault that such a massive swathe of the population have to get the same trains to get to their jobs. Maybe we as society should choose not to organise our lives around such unsustainable expectations about where we can travel to and from on a daily basis, along with hundreds/thousands/millions of other people trying to do the same thing.

Not sure if I think prices should be staggered depending on your access to a seat, it would probably make things more pricey for occasional train users like me. I guess in a sense their already is that option - you can pay for first class (no one stands in first class, do they?)